| Wild boar Temporal range: Human era | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Suidae |
| Genus: | Sus |
| Species: | Sus scrofa |
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The wild boar (Sus scrofa) was a species of suid found in much of Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas during the Human era. A very succesful species, they survived the Human era mass extinction, and by 5 million AD, a population has become stranded on karst plateaus in the Mediterranean Salt Flats, giving rise to a new, more gracile species, the scrofa.